What Computer to Buy?

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:18:36PM -0400, Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
> On 7/19/06, Jared Buck <jared.buck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Building your own machine isn't a bad idea :)  sometimes it's actually
> >cheaper than having one built for you by a computer manufacturer.  Then you
> >can decide exactly what you need for Linux.
> 
> This is a very tempting idea.  My only concern is if I already have
> bad luck buying whole computers compatible with Linux, wouldn't buying
> each part individually only magnify the problem?

Quite the contrary. When you look at hardware, you can find each piece
that is known to work well with Linux. It's harder and harder to find
hardware that doesn't work with Linux these days (at least as far as
the guts of a PC go), but it's still not a bad idea to check that out
just in case.

Mike